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Big Day Of Action To Fix Senate - Call Senators at 1-866-937-5062
The Senate is completely broken, with a minority obstructing everything. Minority. Obstructing. Every. Thing. Everything. There were more than 380 filibusters in just the last few years! In a few days the Senate will vote on fixing this and making them talk if they feel it is important to block a bill, instead of just blocking bills. If we are going to fix the Senate so the majority will can be exercised again, your senators need to hear from you immediately. Tell them to make them talk.
Obama's Second Act
F. Scott Fitzgerald warned, "There are no second acts in American lives." And for recent American presidents, second acts have been brutal. The hope of the first act succumbs to the karmic reckonings of the second. Nixon cast out by his crimes in Watergate. Reagan...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Business Roundtable Attacks The Elderly OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Business Roundtable Attacks The Elderly OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Business Roundtable Attacks The Elderly OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate...
How Extreme Is the Business Roundtable? Check Out Its Attack On the Elderly.
Here's a thought experiment: What if a group of Social Security and Medicare recipients wanted to increase their benefits by, say, 1,000 percent, and proposed seizing rich people's assets – houses, cars, boats, whatever – to pay for it? And whenever anybody suggested...
Sequester And Shutdown Could Be More Likely Than A Fight Over The Debt Ceiling
Over at The Plum Line, Greg Sargent has an important post about the way the debt ceiling fight could end without triggering a cash-crunch crisis for the federal government. Greg thinks is could be one of two possibilities. First, the House GOP could agree to a version of the plan first proposed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that helped solve the last debt ceiling fight in August 2011.
Second, Greg says that the same combination of Democrats and some Republicans in the House that voted for the fiscal cliff deal would likely approve the McConnell plan or a clean debt ceiling increase if the GOP leadership allowed the vote to take place.
Both options are plausible for a basic reason Greg does not mention: The GOP seems to be coming to the conclusion that fighting over the debt ceiling is not its best option.
God, Guns, Gays and Conservatism's Slow Grift
Today, President Obama signed a broad array of executive orders to curb gun violence, in what was the boldest Presidential action against gun violence since the Clinton administration. In a speech that recalled the shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Col., and...
We Need Jobs And Need Infrastructure Fixed. Connect The Dots -- And Fix The Filibuster
Our country has so many urgent needs and two of them are the need for jobs for millions of unemployed people, and the need to upgrade our aging, crumbling infrastructure. Our current policy -- enforced by GOP filibusters of bills to fix the country's infrastructure -- of not fixing our infrastructure to "save money" is starting to cost way more than it saves, and this can only get worse. Hey, I have an idea, why don't we hire unemployed people to fix up our needs-fixing infrastructure, and help get our economy moving again.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Declare Victory Over The Deficit OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "When it comes to spending cuts, it’s time to follow the advice a general offered when we were mired in Vietnam: Declare victory and get out ... Washington needs to spend more money now...
